Sand and water conveyer.



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SAND AND WATER GONVEYER.

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CHARLES AUGUSTUS DEAL, or KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SAND AND WATER- CONVEYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 11, 1912.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914. Serial No. 708,836'.

To all whom t may concern Be it kno-wn that I, CHARLES A. DEAL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Sand and Water Conveyer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to means for utilizing the current in a river, stream or channel for the purpose of removing sand from the bed of the body of water, and conveying it from a point up-stream to a point far enough down-stream to allow sutlicient fall for the purpose.

In carrying out the invention, a broad, fiat funnel is utilized and from the smaller end thereof a flume or conduit leads downstream a sufficient distance, and is then deflected laterally, the lower end delivering to a settling basin, from which basin the sand may be pumped or otherwise removed, as, for instance, after the manner of lifting grain in grain elevators.

The inventionV will be particularly eX- plained in the specific description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speciiication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view showing my invention in connection with a stream; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section; and Fig. 8 is a front end view.

In constructing an apparatus embodying my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, a broad, flat funnel l() is provided, preferably having an inclined top 11, and suitable means provided for anchoring said funnel. In the form shown, anchoring chains or cables 12 lead from each forward corner to anchoring stakes 13 on the bank of the stream. In addition to the anchoring chains, anchoring pegs or stakes 14 are secured to the outside of the funnel and driven into the bed of the stream, the said stakes being guided in keepers 15. To the inclined top 11 of the funnel are secured chains 16 which radiate from the central lifting ring 17, the outer ends of the chains being secured to the top 11, as by rings 18. The arrangement is such that the hook of a fall block or other lifting means, may be engaged with the central ring 17 for lifting the apparatus from the bed of the stream. At the front of the funnel the same is provided with a screen 19, for excluding drift wood and other foreign matter.

The down-stream convergent end of the funnel 10 connects with a conveyer in the form of a conduit or flume 20 formed in suitable sections, desirably anged at the joints, as at 21. The sections of the flume 2O at the lower end of said flume are deflected laterally, as at 22, and lead under the bank of the stream, the outlet end 23 delivering to sand basins, one of which is indicated at 24e in Fig. 1. The sand collects in the basin 24, and may be removed therefrom in any approved way, for instance, by pumping, as will readily be understood. In order to shut off the flow of water and sand through the fiume 20, a section thereof, preferably the forward one, is provided with a gate valve 25, having a handle 26, or equivalent means, extending from the upper side of the said valve above the water level so that the valve may be raised or lowered, as desired.

My invention Supplies a practical means for cheaply and conveniently obtaining a supply of sand from rivers containing the same, it being a well known fact that in the middle-western States of the United States, a supply of sand recoverable by my improved apparatus is available, as, for in' stance, in the Missouri river large quantities of sand are carried along by the stream. vWith my invention, very little work is re quired to place the apparatus in position, whereby a material supply of the sand ordinarily carried down the stream can be diverted and made usable. The invention is useful also for removing material from the bottoms of streams where the material is not to be utilized afterward as in the case of the sand.

It will be understood that the anchoring pins or stakes 13 may be driven into the bed of the stream where the latter is wide, instead of being located on the banks.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

An apparatus for recovering sand from streams, comprising a flume having a gate valve and having the down-stream end de flected laterally, a funnel at the forward end of the flume provided with asoreen at the l In testimony whereof, I have signed my mouth thereof, lneans on the funnel for ennaine to this specification in the presence of @aging a raising and iowerlngdevlee, guldes two Subscribino Witnesses.

D i on the side of the funnel adapted to receive CHARLES AUGUSTUS DEAL. vertical anchoring stakes, and anchoring Witnesses:

chains also extending from the said forward HENRY W. SmDLER end of Athe funnel. l HELEN ASBURY.

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